Comments on: The death of in-house IT? Only partially… Force.com enables outsourcing IT http://techcrunch.com/2008/12/17/the-death-of-in-house-it-only-partially-forcecom-enables-outsourcing-it/ Startup and Technology News Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:03:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Glenn Weinstein http://techcrunch.com/2008/12/17/the-death-of-in-house-it-only-partially-forcecom-enables-outsourcing-it/#comment-18477 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:03:10 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=994#comment-18477 Dave – I agree. But removing the infrastructure issues frees up IT to focus more on what IT leaders have been saying they want to do for years – focus on solving business problems. We all know that traditional IT spends more time chasing down routine maintenance and operations issues than working with the business on creative ways to use technology as a tool to juice revenue and lower overall costs. SaaS, ultimately will redefine, not remove, corporate IT.

]]> By: Jeff Widman http://techcrunch.com/2008/12/17/the-death-of-in-house-it-only-partially-forcecom-enables-outsourcing-it/#comment-18476 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:40:51 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=994#comment-18476 Dave–great summary. IT certainly won’t go away, but they’ll deal less with the infrastructure, and more with on-site issues relevant to keeping employees productive.

]]> By: jess http://techcrunch.com/2008/12/17/the-death-of-in-house-it-only-partially-forcecom-enables-outsourcing-it/#comment-18475 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:41:54 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=994#comment-18475 but is it really a good idea to give control of your company’s major infratstucture to other companies and start being totally dependent on them. Usually i can forsee a few major problems with that approach.

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]]> By: Dave Ploch http://techcrunch.com/2008/12/17/the-death-of-in-house-it-only-partially-forcecom-enables-outsourcing-it/#comment-18474 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:48:51 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=994#comment-18474 Moving applications to the cloud does NOT remove the need for an IT department in most enterprises. Who is going to deal with networking, security, end user support, etc. What is does partially do, is remove much of the infrastructure that an organization is required to maintain and reduce the server operational loads. ALL the problems with technology are still there.

]]> By: Ian Gilyeat http://techcrunch.com/2008/12/17/the-death-of-in-house-it-only-partially-forcecom-enables-outsourcing-it/#comment-18473 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:33:15 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=994#comment-18473 A great example of why companies are moving portions of IT into the cloud. Having said that, whether its in the cloud or in the data center for most employees it makes little difference. The question of outsourcing comes front and center for smaller companies that move IT functions into the cloud, where there previously may not have been available to them. In many ways, the shift to cloud computing extends the outsourcing model that has been used by big business down market into every company that is interested.

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